Firefighters on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria have been forced into temporary retreat as wildfires consume a nature reserve and spread towards population centres. “Human beings are not capable of stopping a fire as intense as this one,” said F...

Thailand’s economy grew at its slowest rate in nearly five years in the second quarter, the government said on Monday, as slowing exports, a struggling farm sector and rising US-China trade tensions took their toll on south-east Asia’s second-large...

Jeremy Corbyn will pledge to do “everything necessary” to avoid a no-deal Brexit on October 31 as well as setting out his electoral platform ahead of a potential general election later this year. Speaking in Corby, a key Conservative-Labour margina...

Paris Saint-Germain suffered an early first defeat of the new Ligue 1 campaign after Rennes came from behind to win 2-1 at Roazhon Park. Edinson Cavani had given the visitors the lead in the 36th minute when he capitalised on a stray pass in the pe...

Last May, 20-year-old Chloe saw her local GP in Grimsby, in the north-east of England, after a personal trauma pushed her to seek professional help. Chloe had been dealing with severe depression and anxiety on and off since she was 13, when she too...

What’s wrong with private equity? Not much, if you look at the numbers. Record dealmaking, record fund sizes, record amounts of cheap debt to juice profits. That’s made everyone a winner. Investor returns are outpacing other asset classes. Private ...

Cape Town – Former national coach Nick Mallett says the Springboks were “fortunate” to escape with a victory over Argentina in Pretoria on Saturday. Winger S’bu Nkosi starred with two spectacular tries that saw South Africa ...

He parleyed his way to Brazil’s presidency with a vote-winning barrage of scaremongering and bombast. But eight months into Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right tenure, there is growing discomfort over the president’s inability – or refusal – to mind his mou...